<A random selection of recent canning-related news and recipes>
* Spicy homemade ale
This isn’t a canning recipe, but: how refreshing does this homemade ginger ale by the blog 30 Bucks a Week look? It appears to be both tasty and highly appropriate for flu season. I love the shot of the drink paired with some [...]
Behold the Flemish Beauty.
Round these parts we call her Beauté Flamande. She’s an extremely hardy type of pear, which makes her one of the few pears that grows happily in Quebec. I’ve been buying them all fall at the market and recently decided to transform a few into butter.
Here’s what I did: I looked over [...]
<A random selection of recent canning-related news and recipes>
* Fleeting nature of food trends: is a pickle backlash around the corner?
This week the New York Observer ran an article titled “The Pickle Posse”. In it the Pickle Freak (a.k.a. blogger Katie Tackett) declares that “pickles are the new cupcakes,” food writer and canner Eugenia [...]
OK cran fans, we’re back talking about our flame-coloured, bog-grown friends again. In part one, I gushed enough about the lil’ ruby fruit, so let’s get down to next recipe.
It’s a little something I found in the oldy-but-awesomely-goody New York Times Cookbook edited by venerable food writer Craig Claiborne and published in 1961. I partly [...]
This is where I introduce you to my new weekly round-up of recent canning-related news and recipes from around the web. Why a round-up? Because the journalist in me loves nothing more than corralling information into run-downs, top-ten-lists, wrap-ups etc. using bullet points and snappy prose. Plus, it’s fun to find out about the latest [...]